Not that Breaking Bad was ever a realistic show, but the machine-gun-in-the-car-trunk thing seemed a little… silly?
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Walter White (Bryan Cranston) isn’t the only one who has a soft spot in his heart for science!
“MythBusters” tested the famous “Breaking Bad” machine gun scene that was in the show’s final episode. Thanks to the myth-busting duo of Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, fans got their answer.
Replacing the neo-Nazis with wood cut-outs, they then recreated the scene, positioning everything – the auto, the gun, the victims, a cowering Walt – just how it was. He did make one basic improvement to the design by attaching the cassette from a 10 speed bike to the garage door opener, but that was a piece of equipment Walter White would have easily been able to find in New Mexico. The entire post is concerned exclusively with its final moments. Yet, despite all the chaos of the lead shower, the Walter White cut-out came out unscathed.
“Breaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan was there to keep the setting authentic.
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The results? Better than they were during “Mythbuster’s” “Breaking Bad” special in 2013, which debunked the effects of both hydrofluoric acid in a bathtub and of solid mercury fulminate thrown to the ground. “That’s good in like baseball”.
